We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.